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Walking the dog

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I love taking my dog for her regular walk but tonight she was a pain to walk. She kept pulling and worse … she kept darting onto people’s lawns to grab sticks and branches or other things.

She was startling me when she’d run or dart to grab things. I guess at first I thought she was either startled or being chased so that scared me .. then when I realized that she’d just about pulled me off my feet and scared me just to get a stick behind a metal building .. well, that made me mad.

It was also kind of cold and windy out this evening when I took her out so our walk wasn’t quite as long as I’d planned.

I think one of the problems is that my husband and I have very different styles or rules when walking her .. my husband used to try to be strict with her when walking her but I think he’s slacked off lately or else my dog doesn’t respect his authority (I sound like Cartman from South Park now LOL) so when he’s been walking her for several days and I talk over she just tries pulling me all over the place .. but after I’ve walked her for a few days she walks by my side calmly without pulling .. so nice. Soon enough … I’ll be the only one walking her.





My Christmas Dog

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I don’t usually dress up my dog – not on holidays or at any time of year, but for some reason I saw those cute red antlers in a pet store and I decided that I wanted my Lab to have them.

So how do you like my Christmas dog?

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She actually seemed to like wearing the antlers – well as long as they were behind her ears. She even picked them up and carried them around which really surprised me. I haven’t taken her out wearing them – I really only bought the antlers to take pictures of her wearing them, but maybe we’ll do a walk around the neighborhood on Christmas eve or Christmas day with the antlers on.

Walk the dog while taking a bike ride?

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I keep seeing people riding by our house on their bikes with their dog trotting by their side. It seems like a great way to give the dog a bit of extra exercise.

I have to admit, we haven’t pulled our bikes out yet this year. My knee has been really bad this year. I was born with knee problems and now it’s turned into arthritis it seems. Yes I’m kind of young to get arthritis, but my leg bones aren’t positioned correctly – my tibia turns a little more outward than it should, so that messes up my knees. I have a feeling I won’t be riding my bike this summer – not until I get my knee feeling better.

My husband on the other hand would probably love to pull out his bike and go for a ride regularly. We live on a busy street, but in general the area is pretty good for bike riding, and if we wanted we could always get out the yakima bike racks and take our bikes to one of the fantastic bike trails in the area since we live near several fantastic interconnecting park systems throughout Toronto.

Our dog would love to trot along beside the bike. I’m certain of it .. oh and she’d be a fantastically tired puppy when the bike “trot” was finished. Perhaps she’d look all sleepy like she did when I took this picture of her back in January?

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What am I going to do with my crazy dog?

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OMG my dog is driving me crazy today! We just went outside with her an hour ago where she frolicked in the backyard making what I call “doggy snow angels” by rolling in the snow and of course relieving herself and now .. well … now she’s at the front door ringing the bell we having hang there asking to go out every five minutes.

Trouble is … I don’t believe she really has to go out. I was just up looking out the front window and my dog is such a smarty pants that now she probably thinks that I’m watching for someone to either come and visit or come and deliver something so she wants me to open the front door so that she can see out too. LOL Uh huh … she doesn’t really want to go outside, she just wants to see outside or to see whatever I’m looking at.

It always seems like my dog clues into what’s going on. I got out the video camera earlier and tried to video tape her doing her crazy jumping up and down when she wants me to slide her bone across the floor at her and of course she started acting up and barking like crazy which she normally doesn’t do … so that video tape which has some excellent jumping will have to have the audio removed! Crazy dog!

Speaking of crazy! I saw this guy earlier today when I was out shopping that was just covered in tattoos from the top of his head to well .. I think probably to his feet. I’d bet that even the best tattoo removal cream wouldn’t put a dent in his tattoos. LOL It looked amazing though! Not my taste of course.

So do you have a crazy dog that acts up when he or she sees you looking outside or sees you with a camera in your hand?

My happy puppy

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My dog is extremely happy this evening. Last weekend when we were at the pet store we bought her one of those huge bones – I think they’re called Mammoth bones and we just gave it to her.

Midnight is lying on her dog bed happily eating away at the bone. she stands up every once in a while to scrape parts of the bone with her paw. I think she’s trying to scrape off some of the tissue that’s still on the bone. I’m sure within an hour she’ll have any tissue and baked on flavor off the bone.

I love seeing her so happy. Every once in a while her tail just starts wagging as she gnaws on the bone. Yep – she’s one happy puppy!

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